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Biostratigraphic correlations in the Eastern Mediterranean Neogene
6. Correlation between sporomorph, marine microfossil and mammal
associations from some Miocene sections of the Ionian islands and
Crete (Greece)

Abstract

Sporomorphs recovered from open marine sequences of latest Burdigalian and Langhian Age on the island of Levkas can be assigned to the Eskihisar sporomorph association. Pollen spectra of samples from Lower Tortonian open marine clays and sapropelitic beds on the island of Zakynthos are characteristic for the Yeni-Eskihisar association. Sporomorphs of the latter association are also found in Upper Aragonian lacustrine sediments on the island of Crete. The transition from the Yeni-Eskihisar to the Kizilhisar association roughly corresponds to the transition from the Aragonian to the Vallesian in terms of continental stages. This implies that the first appearance of Hipparion in Europe, which marks the beginning of the Vallesian, corresponds to conspicuous floral changes. The transition from the Yeni-Eskihisar to the Kizilhisar association occurs within the Lower Tortonian in terms of marine stages.